Monday, 18 July 2011

Komodo Dragon, Varanus komodoensis, confirmed to be able to reproduce naturally by parthenogenesis: photo by Raul654, January 2006

The bickering of the ravens in the dirtleft behind by the demolition crewand then later, further raven sightings and auditions in the shady gladealong the meandering captive creekin the eucalyptus grove by life scienceswhere the steroidal Titan once gave birthby parthenogenesis

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Thanks for this, which in addition to an absence of fog this morning (how strange) brings me great cheer --this "steroidal Titan," Strawberry Creek, our former "steroidal Titan," and that pair of ravens (who know more than they're saying, it seems). . . .

7.18

light coming into sky above still black ridge, waning white moon next to branchin foreground, sound of wave in channel

time as object of time, can be that present being

to one, to a limited extent, one sees only “sounds”

grey white clouds against top of ridge,whiteness of gulls gliding to the left

Steve will have been familiar with this milieu, from his Embryonic Period.

Curtis, as to the mysterious factor: "life sciences" is Life Sciences, a massive cluster of academic buildings of which the westernmost and modern-most is the unit that holds the Genetics labs. It was there that the movie "Junior", with its ten attendant big trucks, was filmed.

What Nature may be unable to do, Art it seems is all too capable of, given enough big trucks.

I figured out most of it, but I'm pleased to say that even with the "literal" explanation supplied, the element of mystery, which animates the poem, survives. The Schwarzenegger phenomenon remains a mystery also. Who would have imagined any of it?